The Open Group: archived home page headlines
Recently we have welcomed 14 new Silver Members — ITpreneurs Nederland B.V. (Netherlands), CeRTAE, ULaval (Canada), Alter Tech (Saudi Arabia), Maptech (UAE), AT&T ITAS (USA), Global Information Technology (China), Aspire Technology (China), Chem China (China) and Dux Diligens (Mexico) in theArchitecture Forum; the Institute for Defense Analyses (USA) and atsec information security corporation (USA) in the Trusted Technology Forum; QPR Software (Finland) and Standard Insurance Company (USA) in the ArchiMate® Forum; and the College of IST at Pennsylvania State University (USA) in the Security Forum. We have also welcomed two new Academic Members from Japan to the RTES Forum: Nagoya University and the University of Tokyo, Information Technology Center.
Recently, we have welcomed EA Principals, Inc. (USA), Technology & HR Consultancy Ltd (UK), and Proya Profesyonel Yazilim Cozumleri ve Danismanlik Ltd (Turkey) as Silver members in the Architecture Forum. We have also welcomed ViaSat, Inc. (USA) as an Associate member of the FACE Consortium; Secunia (Denmark) as a Silver member in the Security Forum; Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute, USA (already an Academic member of the RTES Forum) as a member of the TTF Forum; and WBEM Solutions, Inc. (USA) as a Silver member in the Enterprise Management Forum
Podcasts featuring enterprise architecture's role in combating cyber crime and terrorism, in the global adoption of enterprise architecture in response to regional business trends, and in finding the common ground between the potential of enterprise architecture and resistance by the business community, were published in conjunction with our highly successful conference in Boston. Listen or download here.
The number of individuals certified for TOGAF™ 9 has reached the 3000 milestone (TOGAF 9 Certified 2134 and TOGAF 9 Foundation 866)
In recent weeks, The Open Group has welcomed three new Gold members: CPP Investment Board (Canada), Royal Philips Electronics (Netherlands), and Unilever Group plc (UK). In the same period, we have welcomed five new members to our Architecture Forum: Redd Consulting (UK), AutoTrader.com (USA), Estrat TI SA DE CV (Mexico), and Web Age Solutions (Canada) as Silver members; and Ming Chuan University Department of Information Management (Taiwan) as an Academic member.
We would like to advise our members and customers that our UK office recently moved back to Apex Plaza in Reading. Details
The Open Group recently celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the UNIX® System and invited users to enter the UNIX license plate World Tour Photo Contest. Winner announced
The Open Group has recently welcomed six new Silver members to our Architecture Forum: NEOXIA Maroc (Morocco), Itera IT Institute Iberoamerica (Mexico), Accelare, Inc. (USA), MetLife (USA), Netwerk Gebruikersgroep Nederland (Netherlands) and SMME (UAE). We have also welcomed two new Academic members: Aoyama Gakuin University (Japan) to our Architecture Forum, and Public Research Centre Henri Tudor (Luxembourg) to our Archimate® Forum.
The TOGAF 9 People Certification program, launched earlier this year, has just exceeded its 1,000th registration.
Since the beginning of March, we have welcomed nine new Silver members: Sybase® PowerDesigner® (USA), Acando AS (Norway), BNP PARIBAS (France), NPIA (National Policing Improvement Agency) (UK), IRM UK (UK), BSI SA (Switzerland) and NEOXIA Maroc (Morocco) have joined our Architecture Forum; Ajilon (Australia) has joined the Exploration, Mining, Metals and Minerals Forum; and SYSGO AG (Germany) has joined the Real-time & Embedded Systems Forum.
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In February, The Open Group attracted seven new forum memberships: Senacor Technologies (Germany), The Unit bv (The Netherlands), Gnosis IT Knowledge Solutions (Brazil), and Sybase® PowerDesigner® (US) have all joined the Architecture Forum as Silver members; SIM University (Singapore) has joined the Architecture Forum as a Silver Academic member. In addition, Orbus Software (UK), already a Silver member of the Architecture Forum, has now also joined the Archimate® Forum, and Seccombe Consulting (UK) has joined the Jericho Forum.
So far this year, we have welcomed three new Silver members to our Architecture Forum: KU-INOVA (Thailand's (Institute for Information Technology Innovation), Divinus Consulting (UK) and ETNIC (Entreprise des technologies nouvelles de l'information et de la communication, Belgium). We have also welcomed a new member to the Jericho Forum®: Sanofi-Aventis (France).
Following the successful Cloud Computing activities at our London and Toronto conferences, The Open Group has officially formed the Cloud Work Group. Given our extensive work in and around enterprise architecture and vendor neutrality, the new group's main goal is to ensure the effective and secure use of Cloud Computing in enterprise architectures.
Since mid-November, we have welcomed a new Gold member, Path Information Technology & Telecom Services (Brazil), and four new Silver members - ISM3 Consortium (Spain) in the Security Forum, and NAF (the Netherlands Architecture Forum), FirstRand Bank Limited (South Africa) and Wells Fargo (USA) in the Architecture Form.
The latest Open Group member spotlight focuses on Chris Greenslade, Director & Principal Consutant, CLARS Limited, and Chair, The Open Group Supplier Council, who has been associated with The Open Group since its inception.
Since the beginning of November, we have welcomed three new silver members to our Architecture Forum: Oracle (UK), Faculty Training Institute (South Africa), and CSC (USA). We have also welcomed Fortesque Metals Group (Australia) as a silver member in our EMMMv Forum.
TOGAF™ practitioners pass the 10,000 milestone! The number of certified individuals reflects the "tremendous efforts" of certified practitioners, trainers and Architecture Forum members "to reduce risk, expedite change and create closer links between IT and business".
We welcomed three more new members in September: Graphic Mining Solutions International (South Africa) as a silver member in the Exploration, Mining, Metals and Minerals Vertical Forum (EMMMv); and Arivia.kom (South Africa) and Anywhere s.r.o (Czech Republic) as silver members in our Architecture Forum
Listen to the podcast on how the role and perception of enterprise architects needs to align better with business goals, as discussed by a panel at The Open Group Conference held recently in London, UK - or read the transcript.
We welcomed five more new members in the last week of July: GijimaAst Holdings (Proprietary) Ltd (South Africa) and Energy Consulting / Corporate IT Solutions (Russia) joined as silver members within the Architecture Forum; Sparx Systems (Australia), already a member of the Architecture Forum, additionally joined the ArchiMate® Forum; General Dynamics C4 Systems (US) joined DirecNet™; and Cellcrypt Limited (UK) joined the Jericho Forum.
Listen to the podcast on how the role and perception of enterprise architects needs to align better with business goals, as discussed by a panel at The Open Group Conference held recently in London, UK - or read the transcript.
Since the four new members who joined at the beginning of July, we have welcomed five more: Enterprise-IT-Security.com (Switzerland) as a Silver Member in the Security Forum; Lefatshe Technologies (South Africa), the University of New South Wales and The Marlo Group (Australia) as Silver Members in the Architecture Forum; and the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Helsinki University of Technology (Finland) as a Silver Member in both the Architecture and ArchMate® Forums.
Open Group members - who tackled issues of the enterprise use of Cloud Computing at our London conference - prepare to carry them forward in Toronto.
At the beginning of July we were very pleased to welcome Steria Ltd (UK) and the South African Revenue Services who, together with the South African Reserve Bank and Nokia Oy (UK) who joined at the end of June, are our newest Silver Members within the Architecture Forum.
We have recently had the pleasure of welcoming two more new members, Ovations Techologies (PTY) Ltd (South Africa) at the end of May as a member of the Architecture Forum, and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. (USA) at the beginning of June as a Gold member.
The Open Group has been pleased to welcome four new members since the beginning of May: Apollo Group, Inc. (USA) and JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) (UK) as Gold members; and OFFIS (Germany) and Mainline Information Systems (USA) as members of the Architecture Forum. In addition, IDS Scheer Nederland B.V. (The Netherlands), already a member of the Architecture Forum, has now also joined the ArchiMate® Forum.
"Coming soon: The ultimate industry architecture" Computerworld reports that the hotel industry is the first to be applying enterprise architecture concepts across an entire industry. Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG), a global consortium of the industry's major stakeholders, has released the first version of its business process architecture which uses The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF™).Read the article
The launch of TOGAF™9 in San Diego generated considerable positive comment in the press and within the online IT community. This blog entry by Ron Tolido, CTO Continental Europe & Asia Pacific at Capgemini, is a notable example. You can view a wider picture of the coverage.
The Open Group welcomed two more new members at the end of April: Biner Consulting (Sweden) and Enterprise Architects Pty Ltd (Australia) which have both joined the Architecture Forum.They, together with MIC Business Solutions, Inc. (USA), eflow.Inc (Japan), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Soluta.net (Italy) bring to seven the number of new members joining The Open Group in the second half of the month.
We have welcomed a further three organizations to The Open Group in the second half of March:-
• ING Group (Netherlands) as a Gold Member
• Netsac S.A (Columbia) as a member of the Architecture Forum
• The Capital Group Companies, Inc. (USA), also as a member of the Architecture Forum
The Open Group has now welcomed three new members in March - Van Haren Publishing in the Netherlands, the Department for Children, Schools and Families in the UK, and the University of Muenster, Germany, all of which have joined our Architecture Forum.
The Open Group welcomes three more new members - Domus Technica BV, Netherlands, as a member of the Jericho Forum, the USA's Rockwell Collins which has joined our Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum, and the Department for Children, Schools and Families in the UK, which has joined our Architecture Forum.
The Open Group has welcomed a further three members at the end of January - the University of Washington (WA, USA), Colorado Technical University, and UPCO, the Ultimate People Company ( UK), both as members of our Architecture Forum.
TOGAF™ Version 9 debuts at The Open Group 21st Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference
Hot tech certifications in a cool job market - InfoWorld identify top five certifications in a cool job market - ITAC one of the top five.
SAP becomes Platinum Member in The Open Group and plans to standardize on ITAC for its own architects, regarding it as "tomorrow’s standard architecture certification".
The Open Group's Dave Lounsbury talks to David Linthicum of 'Cloud Computing Podcast' about the summit
The Open Group has welcomed three new members in January: Worklight (Israel) has joined our Security Forum; and TietoEnator Finland EA Consulting (Finland), a subsidiary of TietoEnator Corporation, and Forefront Consulting Group (Sweden) have both joined our Architecture Forum.
The state of enterprise architecture in The Open Group is assessed by President and CEO, Allen Brown (podcast & transcript)
Open Group Security Survey - please participate! The Security Forum is conducting a survey of security concerns in member organizations, and we encourage your input. Closes October 3. Click here to take survey
"SOA places broad demands on IT leadership beyond the traditional enterprise architect role" - the conclusion of a panel discussion at The Open Group's Chicago conference (podcast & transcript on ZDNet)
The Open Group Security Forum initiates the development of risk management and analysis taxonomy, the first phase of a comprehensive initiative aimed at eliminating widespread industry confusion.
Podcast: Why IBM and Capgemini Back The Open Group's IT Certification Program. ebizQ's Beth Gold-Bernstein took time out from our ITSC show to interview IBM's Distinguished Engineer Phil Stauskas and Capgemini's CTO for Continental Europe & Asia Pacific Ron Tolido on why their companies see great value in The Open Group's standardized certification.
Podcast: What Makes a Certifiable IT Specialist? ITSC panelist Beth Gold-Bernstein spoke to The Open Group's Vice President of Certification, James de Raeve, about the key technical and non-technical criteria that can be applied to a board-level interview process to develop a more professional-level certification program.
Vodafone is the latest in a line of major organizations to endorse our IT Architect Certification program
Member Spotlight: Terence Blevins, MITRE Corporation's lead architect supporting the Air Force Agile Combat Support Architecture - who has been involved with The Open Group since the early 1980's - is the latest member to come under our spotlight.
The open source project directory, ohloh.com, assesses OpenPegasus as having a mature, well-established code base with well-commented source code ... and estimates that it would have cost $8 million to date if written by a conventional team!
Dr. Dobb’s Journal has issued a call for participation in a survey that explores an organization's adoption and experiences with several common process/architectural frameworks, including TOGAF.
The Open Group invites you to register your interest in its upcoming IT Specialist Certification program - the first to certify IT specialists on an independent assessment of skills and experience.Download the white paper for more information, and register your interest
Rolls-Royce Global CTO endorses The Open Group's IT Architect Certification program
New IT Architect Certification level announced as program surpasses 2,000 certified - Read more